The Political Language of Flowers Workshop

Florida Prize winner Francisco Masó leads a participatory workshop about flowers as symbols of power, resistance, mourning, celebration, hope, and collective identity. Masó's The Coronation of the Gladiolus provides the artistic starting point.

Participants work with photographs, newspaper clippings, printed text, and found images, transforming floral imagery through painting, collage, drawing, and other interventions. The individual pieces become a collective garden—a shared archive connecting personal memories with cultural history.

The activity asks participants to consider how familiar images change through personal experience and how flowers continue to operate as a visual language of dissent, resilience, and celebration.